The Good Yank wrote:Penguins wrote:Are you telling me no midfielders, with trickery and pace in the whole world at all, are available??
Of course there are, just have to look for them. But they sure as **** won't be british cause they are not available. But there has to be others. If Suarez as a forward didn't need CL why shouldn't there be midfielders of his class that are willing to come.
Ignoring your "Wasted 100 million" bit for now, instead of this broadbrush "Of course there are, just have to look for them.."
Okay well for starters, why don't you give us some names of players that you think would improve our midfield...And please tell us how or why you think they would come to LFC at the present time.
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Good Yank, you made a very good point there. Today's players are mercenaric and football for a top PL side is all about qualifying for CL and using that as a platform to buy star players. And Liverpool at the present time will have a tough time attracting star names because no CL football, plain and simple.
Even if we're lucky to get them (Suarez for example) they won't stay for long if we continue finishing 6th/7th every season. I can put my house to bet that he will want to leave for CL pastures if we continue to fail to qualify for CL for a few more seasons. I am sure Suarez came because he needed CL football and he is hoping Liverpool can provide that for him.
Very simple, if you had the qualities of Messi as a professional player, 2 clubs one with almost guaranteed CL football every season and one finished 6th in PL last season and are still a Work In Progress club, which one would you rather go? I think the answer is obvious.
Footballers, unlike white collar professionals retire young, they don't have the time to be patient with their club employers to provide that coverted CL football for them. Take the case of El Sulko, as a fan, I hated him for leaving us, but if I were him, I'd probably done the same but not in his abrupt manner of course but at the end of the season.